Cruz del Condor - watch or be watched

High up, overlooking the daunting depths of the Colca Canyon is a game viewing spot with a difference, teaming with local women selling everything from hot breakfasts to alpaca wool booties. I couldn´t help wondering though, just who was being watched.

I reckon someone informed the local condor association that every morning, at 9:30, around 200 weird and wonderful tourists from all corners of the globe would gather on a outcrop at the edge of the canyon. Our specific morning at the viewpoint was like most others in the canyon, clear blue skies and a couple of interested condors catching thermals up to their viewpoint. Their aerial displays were magical, on some occasions coming so close that they could even here the clicking of our cameras.

After experiencing all that Cruz del Condor has to offer, I walked away with the knowledge that condors are very big birds, and that tourists are very strange creatures.